The social networking sites including Facebook, Google Inc, and Microsoft Corp integrated with financial organizations including the Bank of America Corp, eBay Inc's PayPal, and Fidelity Investments towards creating a set of norms to be followed for the prevention of criminals from distributing spam e-mails that appeared to be coming from the e-mail addresses of the corporates. The combined Group is affiliated to be known as DMARC.org, meaning Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, as reported in the website of moneycontrol on January 30, 2012.
Spammers masquerading authentic entities like the banks or other authenticated firms' attempts to gain the trust of recipients towards obtaining their personal information including bank account information, payment card numbers, and other confidential data or attract them towards clicking the links that could destroy their systems with malware.
According to Google Product Manager and DMARC Representative, Adam Dawes one of the worst experience of compromise is being phished. However, he sorted out the best method of protecting oneself is to restrict it from reaching the spam folder, as reported in WIRED on January 29, 2012.
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